Tarkov's language gap is still about servers, not culture
All-time Steam totals re-queried 2026-09-13: Simplified Chinese sits at 23.3% against English's 62.4%. Seven languages pool near 28%, the rest near 60%.
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All-time Steam totals re-queried 2026-09-13: Simplified Chinese sits at 23.3% against English's 62.4%. Seven languages pool near 28%, the rest near 60%.
All-time Steam totals re-queried 2026-09-13: Traditional Chinese is now lowest at 34.4%, Russian at 40.3%, Portuguese (BR) leads at 69.7%.
Steam's full appreviews totals put Chinese at 86.1% positive and English at 93.5% positive — a 7.4-point gap, not the 44 points one small sample implied.
Six games, re-queried 2026-09-13. Leading complaints mostly differ, Tarkov's language gap runs 39 points, and X4 swings 68 points from first hours to best.
1,000 recent Steam reviews, re-queried 2026-09-13, plus the original 1,200-review bucket set. The median review is 33 characters; the 200-hour dip holds.
900 fresh reviews by playtime, 1,200 by month. No playtime band drops below 86%, but June — the month V71 launched — is still the low point.
1,500 reviews re-pulled six weeks in. 68% of reviewers have stopped playing and rate it 80.5%; Simplified Chinese still trails English by 14 points.
X4 reads 22.9% positive under two hours, 90.5% past two hundred. German is the second-largest review language, and June, when 9.00 shipped, was the worst month.
1,000 recent Steam reviews, re-queried 2026-09-13: approval keeps falling past 50 hours, down to 25.8% over 100 hours, and the key-versus-store gap has closed.
1,500 fresh Steam reviews by playtime and language. New players under 2 hours score 40% positive; Chinese-language reviews trail their own average by 17 points.